FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION

FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION

1. FOSSIL FUELS

   • EXAMPLES
     • Crude oil
     • Natural gas
     • Peat
     • Coal
   • FEATURES
     • Non renewable: used up faster than they are being made
     • Finite: no longer made or being made extremely slowly
       • Takes milions of years to replace current resources
       • Remaining resources in less accessible areas (e.g. Antarctica) or difficult to extracr (e.g. oil shale extracton)
       • waste to use them as a fuel, could be used to manufacture other useful substances such as plastics etc.